Categoria: MISMATCHED BUTTONS

Lo sapevate?

– Una gallina impiega solo 26 ore per produrre un uovo e 21 giorni per l’incubazione e la schiusa dell’uovo.
– L’uovo di gallina più grande mai registrato pesava 340 gr e conteneva due tuorli.


– Il record per la maggior parte dei tuorli in un uovo è di 9 tuorli.
– Una gallina gira le uova circa 50 volte al giorno e può deporre più di 300 uova all’anno.
– Ci sono più polli sulla terra che persone: 25 miliardi. Ci sono anche più polli di qualsiasi altra specie di uccelli.
– I corpi dei polli contengono il 15% in più di acqua rispetto agli umani.

Romano Pisciotti

GULF STREAM

The Gulf Stream is one of the main circulation systems on our planet.

In fact, it transports huge masses of warm water from the tropics to the cold northern seas across the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, likewise, it carries cold water from the north to the tropics in the deep ocean.

The Gulf Stream is altered by many factors, including melting of the ice that lower the salinity of the sea water.

We know that studies say that it has been slowing down for 1600 years, but in the last century it has significantly accelerated its run towards a stalemate.
If this is indeed happening, prepare for the next few years even decades with something we’ve never seen before.

Africa could become a land of rains and the areas that usually benefit from a rainy climate, face periods of severe drought.

The temperate Mediterranean climate, without major changes in temperature, with the slowing of the Gulf Stream could be compromised to such an extent that Europe in general could face an extreme climate in the coming years / decades.

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

Sustainable livestock production

Meat consumption in developing countries increased by about 70 million tons, almost three times the increase that occurred in industrialized countries, and milk consumption grew by 105 million tons, more than double the increase that occurred in the most developed countries.

To support this increase in production it was necessary to expand the surface of permanent meadows and pastures, which now occupy 3 billion and 350 million hectares, but above all to increase the production of animal feed. About 33% of the arable land areas are now dedicated to the production of animal feed for livestock production. In total, about 4/5 of the entire agricultural area is dedicated to animal feed and only the remaining 20% ​​is intended for the direct production of human food and vegetable fibers.

For example, it is expected that, if the current trend remains constant, meat consumption will double further between now and 2030. Making livestock production sustainable will therefore be increasingly essential.

The use of new tools and discoveries – mechanical, pharmacological and veterinary – has made it possible to make farming more efficient.

Animal food (Tell me what your animals eat I will tell you your success)

Relying only on a “theoretical” diet based on empirical knowledge, rather than one calculated with effective technical means, is not enough to ensure the right nutritional intake and, consequently, efficient farm management.

Knowing what cattle in the barn are eating, or what actually reaches their mouth, is necessary to calibrate the diet, taking into account the actual nutritional capacity of the main components of the same.

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

https://ew-nutrition.com/animal-nutrition/

Leveraging livestock for human nutrition

Livestock are a key resource for economic growth in many countries, both at national and household level. Animals are important assets and an essential source of income for livestock-keeping households. 

Well-managed and utilized livestock can play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The livestock sector plays a crucial role in the social and economic development of a country, especially in low- and middle-income countries. It directly supports the livelihoods of 600 million poor smallholder farmers in the developing world. Livestock are a direct and indirect source of food for rural and urban households. It is estimated that livestock-derived foods, or animal-source foods (ASF), contribute 18% of global food energy consumption and 34% of global protein consumption (FAOSTAT, 2016). ASF are a unique source of high-quality proteins and bioavailable essential vitamins and minerals. 

Leveraging the potential of livestock and optimizing efficiency in production systems is now more important than ever before given the current global food security and nutrition situation.

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

MADE IN ITALY

Maybe because the trunks evoke memories of a past time, in which every journey by carriage or ship was transformed into an adventure. Or will it be because their presence in many films of the last century, but also in the most recent Harry Potter saga, has contributed to spreading their charm with an image of elegance and mystery. The fact is that the impression one gets upon entering the workshop of Emilio Scolari, the historic Milanese maison that since 1922 has been creating handmade and tailor-made leather trunks, is more that of taking a dip in a magical world than in a bygone era. 

 

Sarà perché i bauli evocano i ricordi di un tempo passato, nel quale ogni viaggio in carrozza o in nave si trasformava in un’avventura. O sarà perché la loro presenza in tanti film del secolo scorso, ma anche nella più recente saga di Harry Potter, ha contribuito a diffonderne il fascino con un immagine di eleganza e mistero. Fatto sta che l’impressione che si ha entrando nel laboratorio artigiano di Emilio Scolari, storica maison milanese che dal lontano 1922 crea bauli in pelle, artigianali e su misura, è più quella di fare un tuffo in mondo magico che in un’epoca passata.

di Dino Bondavalli

Traduzione

Romano Pisciotti

 

QUANDO VI DICONO…

“…stiamo diventando molto intelligenti”: vi stanno rincoglionendo

“…non credo che arriveremo…”: attenzione, lo stanno facendo e non sarà una cosa piacevole

 

“…dovrà intervenire un ente regolatori”: saremo preda di pirati e perderemo totalmente ogni “privacy”

“…non potrà mai sostituire…”: lo stanno già facendo

 

Romano Pisciotti

Absurdity of the Day

Absurdity of the Day: Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man on earth who loves to preach to the rest of us about the need to lower our personal carbon footprint, just created a carbon footprint equal to the yearly output of small African nations on a vanity trip to space aboard his penis-shaped space ship.

 

INFO WEB

Romano Pisciotti

Africa’s population will double

Projections show that by 2050, Africa’s population will double.

By 2100, one in three people on Earth will be African.

This means that, by the end of the century, sub-Saharan Africa—which already has an extraordinarily young population—will be home to almost half of the young people in the world.

With a steadily growing population heading towards 2bn, Africa’s 1.1bn workforce will be the world’s largest by 2040. Equally, with a collective GDP of $2.6 trillion by 2020 and $1.4 trillion of consumer spending, many see the impact of around 500m new middle class consumers. Africa as a continent has, on average, grown its economy by at 5% per annum over the last decade. It is already as urbanized as China and has as many cities of over 1m populations as Europe.

However clearly there are many ‘Africas’, with varied economies: from the oil exporters of Nigeria, Angola, Libya and Algeria to the already more diversified economies found in Egypt, South Africa and Morocco, there is a host of nations already with GDP per capita well over $2000. Elsewhere there are many countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana and Cameroon in transition from agricultural to manufacturing and service economies.

For years, Africa’s growth has been shaped by commodity prices – the continent has a third of the planet’s mineral resources, 10% of the world’s oil reserves and produces nearly 70% of the global diamond trade. While this has clearly been good for growth in the past, the dependency on a few key commodities, and hence their global price, has led to high levels of market uncertainty – especially around many of Africa’s currencies: at least ten African currencies, for example, lost more than 10% of their value in 2014. Although oil prices are volatile, oil and gas will however continue to be an important factor in the future of Africa – Africa will remain an important producer of oil and natural gas, accounting for 10% of global oil and 9% of natural gas production in 2035.

In a bid to diversify away from resources, several nations have been pushing hard to grow other sectors of the economy. To date, manufacturing, services and tourism in particular have all shown growth (although, whether from ebola, localized terrorism or national political change, growth from the latter source is evidently volatile). For example, while Nigeria is still very much an oil exporting economy, its service sector now accounts for 60% of its GDP – and ‘Nollywood’, its $3 billion film industry, is now the second largest in the world – bigger than Hollywood and just behind Bollywood in Mumbai. Likewise in Angola, Africa’s second largest oil exporter, where fishing, agriculture and manufacturing growth now means that a third of government revenue comes from non-oil sources. On the back of the success of m-pesa mobile payments that kicked off in Kenya in 2007, many African states, from Nigeria to the DRC, are seen as world leaders in adapting mobile technology and social networks to deliver potentially life-changing new financial platforms – many of which operate across borders and so engender greater transparency and cooperation. Older, protected, and often niche, monopolies are being superseded by collaborative, mass-market platforms from IT-enabled and, most importantly, more trusted, challengers.

FROMWEB

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT

Humans and animals depend on antibiotics to fight microbial infections. It is essential to maintain their efficacy so that future generations can lead healthy lives. Antibiotic efficacy is under threat from the development of antimicrobial resistance, which emerges from overuse and misuse in both human and veterinary medicine. Across the globe, broilers are still raised with the assistance of antibiotics. Either for disease therapy, to prevent disease occurrence, and still, in some parts of the world, to enhance performance. Driven by regulatory and consumer demands, broiler production with minimal or no use of antibiotics is rapidly gaining importance.

The main sustainability challenge for broiler production lies in securing enough high-quality, nutritious, safe, and readily available food at a reasonable cost.

At times, feed ingredients have to be included that are not nutritionally ideal and might compromise one’s broilers’ health and wellbeing. However, counteracting this threat with prophylactic antibiotics is not acceptable:

We must minimize the use of antibiotics to mitigate antimicrobial resistance.

The way forward is to go beyond static and linear nutritional value-to-price thinking. A dynamic nutritional strategy focusing on the interdependencies between ingredients, gut, microbiome, and digestion, enables sustainable broiler production.

https://ew-nutrition.com/sustainable-antibiotic-free-broiler-production/

Presented by Romano Pisciotti

EROI PRONTI ALL’USO

EROI PRONTI ALL’USO

di Romano Pisciotti

 Oggi c’è una narrazione, come usa dire, una “narrazione” che trasforma in eroe ogni cittadino che può servire alle televisioni per lunghe dirette o per far titoloni sui giornali: “eroe” per una medaglia a basso costo offerta dai media spazzatura.

Ho una certa irritazione, non verso l’eroe di turno, ma per i giornalai che distribuiscono facili allori.

Viviamo in un paese post-storico, dove non si fanno più figli, dove per un benessere fuggente e illusorio si seguono politicanti e non più idee. Un po’ in tutto il mondo si svende il passato barattandolo con un futuro incerto. La marea melmosa non riconosce i valori scolpiti nei monumenti e l’ignoranza regna padrona.

Nel paese post-storico si parla di strategia e tattica solo per le finali di calcio o per vendere un nuovo dentifricio, nessuno è più interessato a quello che succede oltre la nostra porta, tanto meno oltre le nostre coste. In un paese post-storico che c’importa dell’identità o della coscienza? Viviamo come ebeti felici nel mondo globalizzato dove gli eroi, e i cattivi, li creano alla tivù. Anche il paese post-storico ha bisogno di santi e di diavoli…nell’attesa che un algoritmo, al quale tutti saremo inginocchiati, decida il torto e la ragione.

Fortunatamente i morti hanno tutta la pazienza possibile e gli angeli sanno chi accogliere nell’Olimpo, mentre i cittadini del mondo seguono un veloce cambiamento: l’estinzione dell’intelligenza e del coraggio!

 R.P.